Vice
Chancellor of University of Ilorin, Professor Abdulganiyu Ambali yesterday said
104,000 admission seekers were competing for about 11 slots for the 2017/2018
admission exercises.
He
said the admission seekers have applied for admission through the Joint
Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) with some of them still writing their
CBT exams in different centres across the country.
Ambali
spoke in Ilorin during the 40th anniversary of the department of History and
International Studies of Faculty of Arts of the university.
Represented
at the event by the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Management Services, Professor
Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem, the VC stated that “the demand for admission in the
university is due to the peaceful and stable academic calendar that has been
the selling point of the university”.
Ambali
also said that infrastructural development, coupled with accreditation of most
of the courses being offered, including academic abilities of the students and
graduates of the university had made the institution a first choice among
admission seekers in the country.
Also
speaking, the chairman of the occasion, who is also a historian, Alhaji Lasisi
Jimoh, said that Nigeria needed to look beyond the 1914 amalgamation for the
cause of the prevailing mutual trust and hatred among various people in the
country.
Jimoh
said that the mutual distrust and hatred had triggered agitation for the
restructuring of Nigeria.
He
emphasised the need for study of History in the country, adding that, “we must
also study history because it is divine to do so since all the major religions
of the world teach us history”.
In
his remarks, the Head of Department of History and International Studies, Dr.
Ibrahim Jawondo, called on corporate organizations and well-meaning
individuals in the country to assist the department to meet parts of its
infrastructural needs aimed at improving academic learning and teaching
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